A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay leftist leaning liberal progressive fit married college-educated former Baha'i NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma from California to Minas Gerais, Brasil.

Monday, June 29, 2015

Via FB Today:

The right for same-sex marriage has been recognized, and the
apocalypse didn't happen. Time will show the irrationality of the fears.

Religious freedom didn't fail. Religious oppression did. People
went to church today and worshipped much as they did last week. Church
doors were not closed. Police didn't haul ministers of the gospel off to
jail. The millions of marriages in America between a man and a woman
did not immediately come to an end.

Only two things in the rights of
the LGBTQ community were decided this week. States couldn't block
same-sex marriage, and they had to recognize same-sex marriages
performed in other states. Some states have chosen to obfuscate. Others
wisely accepted the inevitable. But the fight isn't over.

The seeds have been planted for full LGBTQ equality in the secular
society of our country. The religious communities must now struggle with
how they move forward.